Director - Technology Architect - Java/C++

Position: Director Architect

Skills: Java/C++

Job Description

Common accountabilities:

- Has specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline or function. Provides expert guidance, promotes innovation and formally trains groups of less experienced professionals.

- Has a broad understanding of the environment and uses it to improve efficiency, recommends solutions/best practices and influence the strategy of the department. Translates the strategy of the activity into a concrete action plan for the area, setting and monitoring targets for the team.

- Works independently, based on management directions. May coordinate functional teams or projects and serves as a best practices/quality resource.

Specific accountabilities:

On top of software development engineer activities (user requirements definition, technical solution design and coding, testing, software solutions debugging...) the architect :

- Is responsible for software architecture throughout the lifecycle development taking into consideration system constraints and enterprise architecture strategic directions

- Directs and coordinates software architecture studies for their functional area

- Identifies modelling, simulation and prototyping opportunities

- Provides knowledge on state-of-the art software architecture, taking future developments into account

- Articulates the design to the development teams

- Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools

- Contributes to the architect community, educates, studies options, and recommends evolutions

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Main Responsibilities

- Architecture Governance / Roadmap

- Deliver architecture vision, solution intent, architecture roadmap to modernize the product over the medium term

- Collaborate with Product Management to define and prioritize near term items

- Support new strategic themes and value streams

- Present to D-level executives, pros-cons of solution/architecture choices and secure investment

- Establish technical governance for large enhancements to the product

- Lead Horizon 2/3 initiatives and contribute hands on to build the architecture runway

- Represent the department at corporate level architecture forums, champion architecture changes in line with the enterprise architecture strategy

- Support and enhance current product stack

- Analyze the current solution stack, proactively identify architecture improvement opportunities, prepare proposals & prototypes and actively build the features for increased production stability and reduce manual maintenance effort

- Collaborate with engineers to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications

- Establish critical NFRs for the solution, participate in the definition of others

- Work with scrum teams to ensure architecture consistency

- Plan and develop the Architectural Runway in support of new business Features and Capabilities

- Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow with communication successfully all concepts and guidelines to development team

- Hands on contribution

- Design and code application frameworks for evolving the tech stack in line with enterprise architecture guidelines

- Deliver Proof of Concept / Reference implementations to validate and propose new technology stacks, perform cost estimation, present pros/cons and architecture recommendations

- Support the team to troubleshoot complex production issues

- Actively monitor dependencies in a distributed application landscape with multiple engineering teams and work with stakeholders to ensure that dependencies are resolved in a timely fashion

- Groom engineers and tech leads and implement design best practices in the division

- Build a vibrant, positively motivated team having a high sense of urgency; set the bar high and provide necessary support and mentor team members to achieve it

Skills & Knowledge

- 18 to 25 years of experience working in a distributed product development environment as developer, tech lead and architect

- Should have worked on at least 2 end-to-end product development projects with significant contribution to application framework development

- Should have worked on application modernization during the last 5 years. Hands on experience with MS Azure, Databricks, Streaming and Big data technologies is a plus

- Must have strong programming experience in C++ / Java and have technical width on multiple areas (Python, Scala, Spark). Must be still hands on with writing and delivering code.

- Exposure on Unix/Linux operating systems is a must.

- Experience with RDBMS (Oracle) and/or NO-SQL databases like Couchbase / MongoDB.

- Experience with performance tuning of Java/C++ components, database queries

-Experience troubleshooting severe production issues with high urgency.